Fraudster Catherine O’Brien failed to repay money to estate of elderly woman she scammed of €250,000

O'Brien convinced Waterford woman Marie O’Shea to lend her the money and has not repaid it, despite a court ordering her to repay the estate almost €300,000

An enforcement order was made by Judge Terence Finn in Dungarvan District Court in December 2019 that O’Brien pay a total of €290,184.72 to the estate of the late Marie O’Shea, from Stradbally in Waterford. Picture: Dan Linehan

A court order requiring convicted fraudster Catherine O’Brien to clear a debt judgement of almost €300,000 to the estate of a woman she had persuaded to give several loans remains unenforced.

O’Brien, who has an address in An Ghrianan, Ballinroad, Dungarvan, Co Waterford, was sentenced on Wednesday in Waterford Circuit Court to 25 months in prison, after being convicted in July of three charges of deception relating to the purchase, transport, and insurance of a French mare. Her sentence is back-dated to July.